Should the monarchy be abolished in the United Kingdom?

The chamber backed the status quo comfortably, 7 to 3, a 40-point margin that leaves little ambiguity despite the trigger of renewed Prince Andrew controversy and Republic's cost arguments landing squarely in an austerity moment. For a question framed around scandal and hereditary privilege, the institution held.

The splits, though thin, hint at a pattern rather than noise: women were twice as likely to back abolition as men (40% versus 20%), and the youngest cohort split closer to even than the 35-44 bracket, where support for change collapsed to just one in five. If anything, the middle-aged were the most instinctively royalist group here, not the young.

That inverts the usual generational script on constitutional questions, where it's typically the young pushing hardest against inherited institutions, and suggests this vote was read less as a Brexit-style modernisation fight and more through the immediate lens of scandal fatigue, which cuts unevenly across ages. The gender gap, meanwhile, tracks a familiar contour in monarchy polling, where men have long shown marginally firmer attachment to the crown than women.

With only 10 profiled voters, this is a snapshot, not a verdict on the nation, but the shape of it, cost-of-monarchy arguments failing to move a clear majority even now, tells its own small story about how sticky the institution remains.